In the old Sun
Subtitle: a novel
By: Hermann Hesse ; translated by A. I. du P. Coleman
Contributors: Coleman, Alexis Irénée Du Pont, translator
Publisher: Coyote Canyon Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Claremont, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 98
ISBN-13: 9780989008006
Subjects: Almshouses; Fiction; Older men; Life change events
Work titles: In der alten Sonne
Description: "In the Old Sun, the "Sun" is a scruffy former tavern now employed as a poorhouse, where idlers sit around, living their past lives in the imagination. The narrator then turns to the earlier life of a man of talent and energy who falls victim to drink and is employed as the manager of the "Sun," who then begins to engage, sometimes quarrelsomely, with the other inmates, giving an opportunity for smaller stories within the story, some humorous, some sad. The men grate on one another, but they mourn as they die off"--
Notes: "Translated from the German, In der Alten Sonne, by A[lexis] I[renée] du P[ont] Coleman (1859-1926)."

"One of Herman Hesse's earliest novels, In the Old Sun (In der Alten Sonne) was  completed in 1908. The story is of novella length and comes long before the  novels that  were to make Hesse famous in the decades after World War II. . . .The novel was first published in English in 1914 as Volume XIX of The German Classics: Masterpieces of German Literature by the German Publication Society"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.